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Consider yourself officially absolved for any of the weirdness of having a crush on an animated character: with his floppy hair and John Cusack voice, Dimitri, the rogue-ish St. Petersburg s…
'War Paint' is one of those rare break-speed-records-to-get-there shows to save money for.
The star of 'How I Met Your Mother' and 'The Avengers' cracks jokes with Kevin Kline while her husband Taran Killam stars in Hamilton.
Dennis Wickline was inspired to start the campaign (which has a flexible goal structure) after seeing Alison Bechdel's story in Los Angeles.
The story of a gay, Jewish man from New York who sparked the Disney Renaissance.
A bonanza of Cole Porter is upon us, including two cabaret shows, and no less than three productions of his Broadway musicals.
After a year and a half of listening to 'Hamilton; objectively way too much, and consulting Twitter, I have complied the ultimate list of the most annoying lines in a modern American masterp…
It may be one baby step for a giant ape-like King Kong, or one leap forward in flip flops for a baseball-cap-wearing Hollywood mogul, but the female lead in Kong: Skull Island is nobody's wa…
'[While] I was composing new music for 'The Wall' I was watching the Republican National Convention...the connection was surreal.'
No, they are not blasting for a new subway under the Belasco Theater. The noise you hear is the sound of a mortified Tennessee Williams, turning over in his grave over what pretentious hack …
Wittrock performs alongside the likes of David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig in Othello, and Sally Field in Menagerie.
They aren't. Johanna Day and Michelle Wilson play best friends and line workers on the floor since high school, caught up in an old socioeconomic squeeze play brought on by hard-nosed, cost-…
A Broadway.com message board user asked over $300 for tickets he had gotten for free; the producers' response became a viral marketing tool.
In 'Trial & Error', John Lithgow plays an eccentric Southern poet who may or may not have killed his wife.
The dynamic of 'Beauty and the Beast' reflects the age difference between leading man and love interest that animates many Hollywood films.
When someone asks you where you were the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, not only do you know precisely where you were, you also know what you were doing and how you somehow made it through the r…
In Joshua Harmon's exuberant comedy, expertly directed by Trip Cullman, Gideon Glick does a career-defining turn as Jordan Berman.
The Franco-Prussian War almost started this week. That was the original title of the Joshua Harmon play that just bowed at the Booth, but the author chickened out. "I love that title," he un…
In Barrie's new play, granny gets her guy.
"After joining Kodo I have learned how a single [drum] hit can move an audience's mind."
Soon after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced the wrong Best Picture winner, memes of the incident appeared on Twitter.
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t's good to report that Jake Gyllenhaal, who just made his Broadway musical debut in Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, was spared this special terror even hardcore career singers kn…
It would take a 'Crash'-like upset to unseat the contemporary candy-colored musical of left coast dreams and disappointments, 'La La Land.'